The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-10-23


So LEI the one Of YOU that IL least TO
blame take the first step toward concill-
alton. The one most in the wrong will
never take ii. Oh. il makes one feel
splendidly 10 be able To practice unlim-
tied forgiveness. Ii improves ones
body and soul Ii will make YOU
measure three or four more inches
around the chest and improve YOUR
respiration 50 that YOU can take a deeper
and longer breath 1t improves the
coun,enance by scattering the gloom
and Frightening the forehead. and loosen
ing the pinched look about the nostril and
lip. and makes YOU like God himself
lie is omnipotence, ami We cannot copy
that He Is independent of all the uni
verse. and we cannot copy that. lie Is
Omnpresp1t and we cannot copy that.
But he f0rgives with q broad sweep all
faults. and all neglects and all insults,
and all wrong doirg. and in that way
we may copy him with mighty succ, -.
Go harnes, that sublime action Of your
soul To an autumnal sunset. the hour
when the gate of heaven opens 10 let the
DAY pass into the eterniueS and some
Of the glories escape this way through
the brief opening We talk about
the Italian sunsets, and sunset amid the
Apprentices. and sunset amid the COrdille-
ras. But | will tell YOU how YOU may
see grander sunset than any mere lover
Of nature ever beheld: that is by flinging
into it all your hatreds and animosities,
and let the horses of fire trample them.
and the chariots stab them, aud the beach
of tire consume them. and the pillows of
tire overwhelm them The sublimest
thing YOU can do Is forgiveness. Along
the glowing banks Of this coming even
tide let the divine and the human be CON
current.
Again: We should not let the sun 60
down ON our wrath. because it is of little
importance what the world says of YOU
or doe, to you when YOU have the aillu-
ent God of the sunset as your proyider
and defender People talk as though IL
were a fixed spectacle of nature and al
WAYS the same But no one ever saw
two sunsets alike and if the world has
existed 5000 years there have been about
D 100, 600 sunsets. each of them as dis
tiuct from AN the other pictures in the
gallery of the sky as Iitian's Last Sup
per. Rubens Descent from the Cross,
Raphael TRANSPORTATION, and Michael
Angeles Last Judgment, are distinct
from each other. If that God of
such infinite resources that ne can put
ON the wall Of the sky each night moro
than the Louvre, and the Luxembourg,
and the Vatican. and the Dresden and
Venetian galleries all in one is my God
and your God, our provider and protec-
tor. what Is the use Of our worrying
about any human antagonlSm: II we
are misinterpreted, the God of the many
cOlored sunset can put the right color on
our action. If he can afford TO hang
such masterpieces over the outside wall
Of heaven and have them Obliterated in
an hour he must be very rich IN re
sources and can put III through in safety.
If all the garniture of the western hea-
yens at eycntide is but the upholstery Of
one OF the windows of our future home,
what small business for us Ia b.
,hasing enemies, let not this sabbath
un 20 down upon your wrath.
Mahomet said: The sword is the key
IF heaven and hell. drop OF blood shed
is better than fasting. and wounds in the
day OF Judgment Respondent as yermil-
ion. and odoriferous rs musk. ~ But,
my hearers, ia the last day we will find
Just the opposite Of that TO be true, and
that the sword never unlOcks heaven.
and that he who heals wounds Is greater
than he who makes them. and that on
the same ring are two KEYS Gods for
giyeness of us and our forgiveness Of
enemies. and these two keys unlock
Paradise.
And now wish for all of You a beau
uful sunset i'm your earthly existence.
With some of YOU IL has been a long day
Of trouble. and with others Of YOU it will
be- far from calm When the sun rose at
q o'clock il was the morning Of youth.
and fair day was prophesied, but by
the time tine noon day of midlife had
come and the clock of YOUR earthly ex-
istence had struck -, cloud racks gath
cred and tempest beloved ia tine track
Of tempest But as the evening OF old
A-t dflllhd'H'0 pay R'N 'i' 0Ni'' Ni"j
brighten and the clouds be- piled up into
pillars as of celestial temples To which YOU
20. or move as with mounted cohorts
come 10 take you home. And as yon
,ink ont of sight below the horizon may
there be- a radiance of Christian example
lingering long after you are gone,
and ON the heavens be- written IN letters
Of sapphire and on the waters
in letters of opal. and on the bills in let
tiers of emerald. Thy sun shall no more
go down. neither shall thy moon with
lraw itself for the Lord shall be- thine
everlasting light and the days Of thy
mourning shall be ended. So shall the
sunset of earth become the sunrise Of
heaven
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